Friday, 29 January 2010

... phases of being employed ...

Phase 1

You are listening to jazz -- Your first day at work is great. Your fellow co-workers are wonderful, your office is cute, you love your supervisors, and your manager is the best!

Phase 2

You are listening to pop music -- After a while you are so busy that you are not sure if you're coming or going anymore.

Phase 3

You are listening to heavy metal -- This is what you feel like after ONE month.

Phase 4

You are listening to hip hop -- You become bloated due to stress, you're gaining weight due to lack of exercise because you are so tired and have so much work to do and, when you do get home, you feel sluggish and suffer from constipation. Your fellow co-workers are too cheerful for your liking, your supervisors don't understand a word you say and the walls of your cubicle are closing in.

Phase 5

You are listening to GANGSTA RAP -- After more time passes, your eyes start to twitch and you forget what a 'good hair day' feels like as you just fall out of bed and load up on caffeine.

Phase 6

You are listening to the voices in your head --You wonder WHY you are even here in the first place.

Thursday, 7 January 2010

... no need to shout ...

One day, a professor asked his students, 'Why do we SHOUT instead of speak when we are ANGRY?' All the students thought for a while. One answered, 'Because we lost our cool. That's why we SHOUT.' Asked the professor again, 'But the person is just right next to you, why can't we talk softly but have to SHOUT?' Everyone gave their opinions but none was accepted by the professor. Finally, the professor explained, 'When we are ANGRY, our hearts drift apart. To mask the DISTANCE we felt, we instinctively SHOUT instead of speak so the other party can hear us.'
'But as we SHOUT, we get ANGRIER. And we felt we drift apart further. So we SHOUT even louder...' 'It is the opposite when we are in love. Not only we do not shout, we whisper into each other ears. Why?' 'This is because our hearts are very close, almost never apart. As our love deepens, we reach a state of communication where there is no need for words.' 'We understand each other well enough just by exchanging look.' concluded the professor.
'Therefore, when we are arguing, DO NOT speak words that will make our hearts drift apart. WAIT a few days. When you feel your hearts are no longer far apart, pick up the conversation and continue from there.'

Friday, 1 January 2010

... last day of 2009 ...

the usual practise when the year ends.. newspaper would report what had happened during this one year.. do you remember your own major events for the past 1 year???

i had my own experience too.. number one which is a unforgettable one.. the surprise news i had 2 days ago..

number two would be my grandma's demise in march.. three?? hmm, i had gone back to bowling but stopped again due to my poor thumb that was accidently 'crushed'?

still we move on..

being the last day of the year, i met up with my best friend..

we went to anchorpoint for some shopping first.. fruitful i would say.. she bought a t-shirt from cotton on while i got myself a pair of heels from charles & keith.. then we proceed to holland village for dinner..

we wanted to try this cafe call mykii featured by hungrygowhere website.. as one of the comment that said "A good chillout that you truly deserve!"

upon our arrival, we didn't step in.. yes, went all the way there hor??

anyway, reason was, we were too cascually dressed and we both feel we kind of feel out of place if we were to enter the cafe..

i was in t-shirt, jeans and slippers and my dear friend was in blouse, bermudas and slipper.. from the outside the place looked kind of 'mid-class atas'.. so we decided to change venue..

as we had our tea time at 5.30pm so we weren't that hungry too.. so wanted to find the ice cream cafe that another friend recommend call daily scoopz.. however, it was nowhere to be found.. (located at chip bee garden??? where exactly har??)

in the end, we went to N.Y.D.C cafe instead.. out of surprise, both of us didn't try this old time cafe at all!! what a conincidence.. we shared a pasta and their famous mud pie (ours was cookie monster).. looked more like a ice cream cake to us.. sorry folks no pictures to show as i'm not a food-picture-taking manic.. haha..

we chatted which we were wondering earlier.. talking over the phone almost everyday and do we still have anything to chat about??? well, we did! as N.Y.D.C closed at 11pm so we proceed home as we wanted to avoid the countdown crowd also (she's pregnant BTW)..

yes, on the eve of new year.. well, nothing special too.. however, we were lucky as we managed to see part of the fireworks at the marina on the bus..

that's my new year's eve countdown..

of course, got some new year sms from friends also.. one of them is my classmate which i find it meaningful.. share it with you if you didn't get it from me:

新年快樂 ^_^

曾經擁有的不要 《忘記》

屬於自己的不要 《放棄》

辛苦得來的更要 《珍惜》

已經失去的當作 《回憶》

走過的路已成  《过去》

願你的未來一切都能 《隨心所欲》…

祝你新年快樂;心想事成 !


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